Discovery Box| (0.22) | 1Ki 14:26 |
| He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 14:27 |
| King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard 1 who protected the entrance to the royal palace. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 15:13 |
| He also removed Maacah his grandmother 1 from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 15:33 |
| In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel in Tirzah; he ruled for twenty-four years. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 16:9 |
| His servant Zimri, a commander of half of his chariot force, conspired against him. While Elah was drinking heavily 1 at the house of Arza, who supervised the palace in Tirzah, |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 16:11 |
| When he became king and occupied the throne, he killed Baasha’s entire family. He did not spare any male belonging to him; he killed his relatives and his friends. 1 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 16:19 |
| This happened because of the sins he committed. He did evil in the sight of 1 the Lord and followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to continue sinning. 2 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 16:23 |
| In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king over Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of them in Tirzah. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 16:26 |
| He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin; 1 they angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. 2 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 17:17 |
| After this 1 the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 17:19 |
| He said to her, “Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 17:20 |
| Then he called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?” |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 17:21 |
| He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.” |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 17:23 |
| Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, “See, your son is alive!” |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 18:18 |
| Elijah 1 replied, “I have not brought disaster 2 on Israel. But you and your father’s dynasty have, by abandoning the Lord’s commandments and following the Baals. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 18:31 |
| Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, “Israel will be your new 1 name.” 2 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 18:32 |
| With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. 1 Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs 2 of seed. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 18:37 |
| Answer me, O Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, O Lord, are the true God 1 and that you are winning back their allegiance.” 2 |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 18:38 |
| Then fire from the Lord fell from the sky. 1 It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench. |
| (0.22) | 1Ki 18:40 |
| Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed 1 them there. |
